Product Description
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Karl Bohm’s name carries with it immense respect among musicians
and connoisseurs in our most sophisticated markets, particularly
for opera where his “gods” were Mozart, Wagner and Richard
Strauss. Deutsche Grammophon proudly brings together for the
first time his complete vocal s for the label –
including the star-studded 1968 ‘Le nozze di Figaro’; the
legendary ‘Zauberflöte’ from 1964 with Fritz Wunderlich and
Roberta Peters; Bohm’s two s of the ‘Missa solemnis’,
two Rosenkavaliers, three s of Ariadne auf Naxos,
Wagner’s Hollander & Tristan … and one disc of new-to-CD
s. Beautiful packaging and presentation.
• 70 CDs presenting Karl Böhm’s complete vocal s on
Deutsche Grammophon, including studio productions as well as
timeless live s from Vienna, Salzburg and Bayreuth.
• Additional spoken word s (in German) with Böhm
detailing his relationships with Richard Strauss, Mozart and the
Vienna Philharmonic: including one full disc of s new to
CD (English synopsis for CD 70, "A Life Retold" available online)
• PACKAGING: A lift-off box featuring new liner notes by Richard
Osborne
• The 1944 Ariadne auf Naxos available digitally for the first
time
HIGHLIGHTS
• Legendary s of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Die
Zauberflöte
• Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and Tristan und Isolde live
from the Bayreuth Festival
• Two s of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (1955, 1974)
• Two s of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (1967, 1977)
• Two s of R. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (1958, 1969)
• Three s of R. Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (1944, 1954,
1969)
Review
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“Bohm plays the music for all it’s worth, and with an absolute
understanding of what it is worth in terms of expression.”
GRAMOPHONE, on Bohm’s unsurpassed 1965 of Wozzeck “The
spirit of ensemble was quite unlike anything I have ever
experienced and it was obviously helped by Karl Bohm’s sensitive
and beautifully balanced reading.” OPERA MAGAZINE, on Bohm’s 1960
Saltzburg performance of Così fan tutte
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About the Artist
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KARL BOHM The great German mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig
described Bohm as her ideal mentor, not least because he was one
of those rare conductors who genuinely understood the voice. But
then, she was Bohm’s kind of artist: a singer who sang in tune
and on the beat, with every note-value and rest precisely
observed. Bohm was austere and less assured singers than Ludwig
had a harder time, but all the same, Bohm was respected as an
artist who patently knew his craft. Bohm was one of the
quintessential conductors of opera in the history of recorded
music, especially when it came to his three beloved musical
“gods”: Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss – the latter with whom
he enjoyed a long personal and professional relationship. During
his career Bohm enjoyed tenures with the Munich Opera, and as
Music Director in Dresden, Vienna and Salzburg, and at the same
time spent a good deal of time freelancing abroad. Many of Bohm’s
most memorable s were made live. He disliked studio
and was often misrepresented by it, especially in the
orchestral repertory. Hence his reputation among those who never
heard him live in the opera house as a kind of fossilized
Kapellmeister. Alongside the studio productions here are timeless
documents from Vienna, Salzburg and Bayreuth – including Wagner’s
Der fliegende Holländer and Tristan und Isolde, recorded at the
Bayreuth Festival and other touchstones of excellence and
historic resonance, Strauss’ Arabella and Daphne, made
respectively at Salzburg and Vienna.
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